Hello and welcome to iGarden. Anyone who knows me will know that I am 'The Compulsive Gardener' - I love everything about gardening.
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In my younger days, I could garden basically from after breakfast until dinnertime, with a brief stop for lunch. Those times are now just a fond memory and my limit is probably about three hours now. Over the past seven months, I did spend up to three hours gardening for many days, but now that I am starting gradually to go out a bit more and resume some of my previous activities, gardening time has to be fitted in amongst other things. But I have found that if I am very organised, one hour of g ... Read On »
See the full list of what's flowering in my garden this month.
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October is one of the prettiest months of the year in our gardens, and brings new tasks for us to do! Read More »
Plant out some annual flowers for summer colour if you have any spaces to fill. Torenia, alyssum, Impatiens, Petunia and Catharanthus are all easy to grow in our climate. Cleome is a wonderful tall annual that can be grown from seed. If you have self-seeded annuals appearing in your garden now, thin them out so there is reasonable space between them and give them some regular liquid fertiliser.
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